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...trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five or six more for accents) and accompanying slacks that are cut as slim as decency permits...
...recently purchased a house in the French mountain village of Canfranc, a stone's throw from the Spanish border, near the notheastern corner of Catalonia. For some reason such a purchase seemed very characteristic of the man, as was his description of its place in his life: "I wander over Europe from there...
...enchanted kingdom where no bird sings and no leaf stirs and the sun sits in a puddle like a madman's eye on a plate. Then all at once the kingdom discloses its fairy prince and princess, a boy and girl (Curt Pfeffer and Hazel Ford) who wander amorously into a cosy ruin. The beauty of the girl compels the aging artist and the young man simultaneously but differently. While the lover loves her, the artist draws...
...production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the Yeats translation. They had already staged Cocteau's Orphee at their 60-seat Philadelphia Theater for Children, an abandoned slum building. Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old Christopher Speeth, the only white teacher at 76-year-old Arthur School. A lawyer's son, Speeth grew up in Cleveland with a bewildering variety of talents. He began studying the violin at 3½, won numerous musical competitions...
...with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named, Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew...